The new stove from Sanyo that talks back

Sanyo is busting out a new 200V Built-In IH Cooking Heater stove in Japan with "voice navigation" to guide you through your dangerous kitchen adventures. The stove sounds off musical tones when it's done cooking or boiling water, and can get tones off the Internet or from your phone via infrared. If you're just completely lost, the induction heat stove can also talk you through some recipes, but we're just hoping it can put its vocal powers to good use and talk you down from that ledge.

[Via Popgadget]

[pete @ Feb 16th 2006 10:54AM]

well why'n high hell is its word-talk all cooky ern alll? whers ma nascar?!

[pkontrol @ Feb 16th 2006 11:13AM]

~~I'm on firrree~~
~~Nobody closed me for hours~~
~~I'm on firrree~~

[K_G @ Feb 16th 2006 11:41AM]

Share and Enjoy!

[Brian @ Feb 16th 2006 12:08PM]

...and is powered by Microsoft Windows.

"What do you want to cook today?"

[dumpsterdiver @ Feb 16th 2006 1:01PM]

too bad i don't understand Squiggly....

[Jamar @ Feb 16th 2006 1:11PM]

The Babelfish confuses me to no end, so I'm glad that I understand Japanese- I'll help a little.
-You can choose from up to 2000 melodies to play when your food's done. You can also transfer additional songs from a cell phone through muPass, A DOWNLOAD SERVICE (yay, MORE DRM) with a similar selection to iTunes, except that muPass songs can be used on anything with muPass software built in
-The cooking navi system will help fix mistakes that you make
-The oven tray slides out on rollers for easy removal
-It will remove smoke from the oven, making grilling possible inside it
-It will also remove bad smells from your food (for example, that "fish" smell
-It will reduce the amount of oil required for frying?-not sure if it's 200g less oil required or only 200g required (but 200g is hardly "only")

[tiuk @ Feb 16th 2006 2:10PM]

It'd be cool if someone made a stove that you could turn off over the internet.

[DM @ Feb 16th 2006 2:51PM]

Thanks, jamar!

[cuby @ Feb 16th 2006 3:15PM]

i seriously would love a stove that spoke japanese. that way, when guests are over, i can burn something on purpose, have the stove start yapping away at me, and i can scream back "FACK YOU! I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU, YOU FACKING STOVE! SPEAK ENGLISH I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING" and my guests would be totally freaked out for so many reasons. that's why it would be cool to have a stove that spoke japanese.

[tempusmaster @ Feb 16th 2006 4:20PM]

We bought a new house in Chiba, about 35 minutes by express train east of Tokyo, last summer with all new appliances, and a couple of them 'talk' like the new Sanyo stove.

For example, our bathtub automatically fills up with hot water, tells us when it's almost ready, tells us when it's finished filling, and reports if the temperature control is changed. It's extremely useful, especially if you are busy or have kids. You can set it to fix a bath, then go into the living room or den to watch television or work on the computer. The bath's audio alert is kind of like Mom telling you that your bath is ready...

And, if you have young children that want to take a bath alone, the bath tells you if they fool around with the controls - which would help avoid any accidents or burns.

There's a major trend here among manufacturers like Sanyo to add robotic like functionality or intelligent added value to appliances. I'm working on a study that I hope to publish later this month on my robotics weblog at http://www.robots-dreams.com to analyze this trend in quite a bit of detail.

[cc @ Feb 16th 2006 5:23PM]

I, for one, welcome our robotic cooktop overlords...

[Sad Smurf @ Feb 17th 2006 7:17AM]

Does this mean it will talk to me and be my friend when no one is around?

http://BlueBuddies.com/

[Phil @ Feb 17th 2006 4:07PM]

"Dave, I'm lonely. Take me back to Sears where all of my friends are."

Seriously, though, I have a new stove and it can't even get the oven temperature right. If it can't measure the temp. accurately, why would I believe it when it says my food's done?